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Defining Soil Quality For Ecosystems and Ecosystem Functioning
1993A number of approaches to defining soil quality have attempted to derive a single set of values based on uncontaminated or ‘undamaged’ soils (e.g. Lexmond et al 1986, Moen et al 1986). An ecological approach should be based on the soil requirements of the given soil biota system and the use/management aims of the system.
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Biodiversity and Microbial Ecosystems Functioning
2014All ecosystems are composed of multiple species performing numerous functions. This plurality identified as biodiversity has become a research topic of general importance for understanding how ecosystems function. The word “biodiversity” has subsequently received different interpretations we aim to describe.
Normand, Philippe +4 more
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Regulatory Ecosystem Services and Supporting Ecosystem Functions
2020This chapter provides the analysis and assessment of ten regulatory and supporting ES: R1, air quality regulation; R2, water quality regulation; R3, erosion and natural hazard regulation; R4, water flow regulation; R5, local climate regulation; R6, global climate regulation/carbon sequestration; R7, biodiversity promotion; R8, life cycle maintenance ...
Ján Černecký +6 more
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Ecosystem Function of Biodiversity: A Summary
1994In light of past and projected global changes in land use and climate, there has been increasing concern about the loss of genetic diversity in fragmented populations, the loss of species diversity through habitat destruction, and the role of landscape diversity in regional processes.
Schulze, E., Mooney, H.
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Species diversity, functional diversity, and ecosystem functioning
2002Abstract Experiments assessing the effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning initially aimed at establishing whether such relationships exist (e.g. Naeem et al. 1995; Tilman et al. 1996; Jonsson and Malmqvist 2000; Engelhardt and Ritchie 2001).
Hooper, D. +12 more
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Distributional (In)Congruence of Biodiversity–Ecosystem Functioning
2012The majority of research on biodiversity-ecosystem functioning in laboratories has concentrated on a few traits, but there is increasing evidence from the field that functional diversity controls ecosystem functioning more often than does species number. Given the importance of traits as predictors of niche complementarity and community structures, we (
Mulder, Christian +14 more
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Ecosystem services ecosystem function and the ecosystem approach
2014This project focused on mapping the delivery of three ecosystems services each in one case study area in Scotland and then identify how the Scottish policies such as woodland expansion biodiversity, conservation and food production affect the land use.
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Assessment of the purifying function of ecosystems
Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 2000Vorenhout, M. +2 more
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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function
Conservation Biology, 1994In at least some circumstances, biodiversity affects various ecosystem functions and the ways in which ecosystems respond to disturbance. Because these interactions occur at many spatial and temporal scales and throughout all levels of biological organization, it is difficult to decide where to focus attention on interactions between biodiversity and ...
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A closer look at the functions behind ecosystem multifunctionality: A review
Journal of Ecology, 2021Gina Garland +2 more
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